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ALLEGRIS MISERERE IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL - GRAHA...

The Miserere attributed to the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most
popular  often performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance early Baroque music. It
was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII in the 1630s  for the exclusive use of the
Papal Choir in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week  the last of thirteen surviving Misereres
sung at the services of Tenebræ since 1514. When the young Mozart visited Rome  so the story
goes  he transcribed it from memory  risking excommunication but helping posterity to reclaim
the piece. Yet the Miserere known today bears little resemblance to Allegri's original or to
its method of performance before 1900. This book is the first detailed account of this iconic
work's performance history in the Sistine Chapel  in particular focussing on its heyday in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather thanlooking at the Miserere as a work on paper  the
key to its genesis - as this book reveals - can only be found in a performance context. The
book includes consideration both of the implications of that context in recreatingit for
performance  and of the history and practice of the English Miserere - the version commonly
heard today. Appendices present key source transcriptions and two performance editions. GRAHAM
O'REILLY is founder andconductor of the French-based Ensemble William Byrd  which recorded the
Miserere from a late Vatican manuscript in 2000.

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